Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön / གཡུང་དྲུང་བོན་ཉར་ཚགས་རིག་མཛོད།

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Dzogchen & Advaita Vedanta

Over the years I have had many discussions on the topic of Dzogchen[1] and Vedanta, particularly Advaita Vedanta, with friends and practitioners of Yungdrung Bön[2] and various schools of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Recently, this topic came up again in conversation when a friend  brought to my attention a section of Loel Guiness’ book Rainbow Body that contains an exposition of the Dzogchen view. We had a lively discussion about what was written there after my recent talk at Watkins Books in London and it is this discussion that has prompted me to write this article since, from the perspective of Dzogchen…
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Mucho Demdrug Turning the Wheel of Bön

Today is the anniversary of when Mucho Demdrug (Tib. Mu-cho ldem-drug), one of the seven sons of Buddha Tönpa Shenrab Miwoche, turned the Wheel of Bön.

New Book on Magyu Tummo, Tsalung, Gagsel and the Thigle Practice of Four Joys

We are delighted to share with you the good news that a new full colour book on the Path of Method from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bӧn is now available! Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom from the Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Translated from Tibetan by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Dmitry Ermakov and Carol Ermakova, with full Tibetan text on each facing page. Illustrations by Yungdrung Rabten. གཏུམ་མོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བདེ་དྲོད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར། མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བསྟན་འཛིན། Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom is a bilingual Tibetan-English hardback edition with 45 full-colour illustrations that includes six texts Drubdra Khenpo composed…
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Why do we take rebirth as an ordinary sentient being?

I have already taught something about this Basic Nature. When a thought appears from there and you look towards that thought, the thought disappears and there is a clear presence. Soon afterwards, a thought arises. If you follow the thought and immediately judge it as good or bad or something, then you forget where it is coming from, you forget the source. When you see anything, when an object arises, when for instance something interesting comes, you immediately perceive it as interesting and follow it, and that leads to desire. If on the other hand the objects are not very…
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Книга «Мастера Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью» вышла в свет

Друзья, мы рады сообщить, что сегодня вышла в свет новая книга учений Верховного Учителя тибетской духовной традиции юнгдрунг бӧн Йонгдзина Лопӧна Тэндзина Намдака Ринпоче. «Мастера Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью: Сущностные наставления Линии духовной преемственности опыта Бӧнпо Дзогчена» содержит наставления по древнейшему на Земле циклу дзогчена Жанг-Жунг Ньенджью, впервые опубликованные на русском языке для широкой публики. Книга снабжена цветными репродукциями миниатюрных икон мастеров этой традиции и вкладкой, на русском и тибетском, со схемой Линиий духовной преемственности лам этого цикла дзогчена с древнейших времен вплоть до наших дней. Вступление и перевод Дмитрия Ермакова. Этот совместный проект реализован Исследовательским центром тибетской культуры и религии «Юнгдрунг…
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